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Note and rest grouping

There are generally accepted conventions for how notes and rests of different durations

are notated and grouped in different contexts and meters. In Dorico Elements, notes are

automatically notated to t within bars.

Depending on the prevailing time signature, there can be many different ways to beam notes

together. For example, you might want to beam all notes in the bar together in time signatures

that cannot be divided in half and are often not divided at all, such as 3/4.

A passage containing different meters. Notes are grouped and beamed differently in the different meters,

and the durations of tied notes that cross the second barline are automatically correct.

There are also different conventions for how notes within tie chains should be divided to indicate

signicant beat boundaries within bars, and in which contexts they can cross beat boundaries.

Similar options apply to dotted notes, which are often notated as a single dotted note if they

start at the beginning of bars, but as a tie chain that shows

signicant beat boundaries in the bar

if they start part-way through bars.